7 October: Mattarella's warning against hatred, Meloni calls for a stop to spiraling violence. Schlein: two peoples, two states

«Today marks the tragic anniversary of the despicable attack perpetrated by Hamas against numerous Israeli civilians. Many young people, including those of other nationalities, were cowardly attacked, taken hostage or deprived of their lives while they were gathered for a festive occasion. Others brutally killed or kidnapped from their homes, without any mercy for children and the elderly. Acts of terrorism can never be justified or archived. They will remain, for all peoples, a painful warning that the barbaric and uncivilized plagues of terrorism, anti-Semitism and every form of hatred on an ethnic and religious basis are forever condemned and firmly rejected, in the Middle East and throughout the world." Thus the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella on the anniversary of 7 October

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni also remembered the victims of the massacre. «Three years ago, on October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attacks massacred men, women and children, attacked young people gathered to listen to music, snatched innocent people from their families and dragged them into captivity. Today we remember the victims of that barbarism and renew our closeness to their loved ones, to those who suffered the horror of the kidnapping and to the Israeli people." «The time that has passed - he added - does not mitigate the seriousness of those crimes. No cause can justify the deliberate massacre of innocents. Remembering this also means renewing the commitment against all forms of anti-Semitism"

The secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein in recalling "the bloodiest terrorist attack in the history of Israel, with the barbaric killing by Hamas of over 1,200 civilians" spoke of "horror that still pains and which cannot be forgotten, together with the innocent victims". And he added: «We have always said that that horror does not justify anything else. And we must keep our attention high on the fact that Palestinians in Gaza continue to die under the weapons of the Israeli army and due to a lack of humanitarian aid. In the West Bank, international law is trampled on a daily basis by settler violence and the expansion of illegal settlements. The crimes committed by Netanyahu's government cannot go unpunished. The international community must make every effort to achieve peace, with the solution of two peoples and two states which both have the right to exist, and to live in peace and security."